persistent-data

How do you farm out variables to persistent data?

Basically, I want to have my program retrieve various variables from the hard drive disk for use in the program. I guess, before asking for details, I should verify that is even possible. Is it? If it is, what is the best way? I've seen the use of .ini files, but I don't know how to retrieve data specifically from .ini files. Is it the ...

What exactly does this Standard ML code do?

I'm reading Chris Okasaki's purely functional data structures, and there's one example I am having trouble with. It is located here. In particular, I don't understand how the rotate and exec functions work: fun rotate($Nil, y::_, a) = $Cons (y, a) | rotate ($Cons (x, xs), y :: ys, a) = $Cons(x, rotate (xs, ys, $Cons (y, a...

Custom persistent-storage?

Hello! I need to make a desktop application that stores data, I want this data to protected, and besides, the user shouldn't have to install any data-servers (i.e. SQL-Server, office etc.). I thought XML would be the best idea, the question is how can I protect the data whilst enjoying the other cool features of it which is XML literal...

Erase persistent data from Eclipse/Simulator

anyone know how to erase the persistent data from the Eclipse tool or from the Blackberry simulator? Resetting the simulator is not erasing the data. i found these instructions in a book, but i'm thinking that these instructions were for an older version of eclipse. "From the JDE Plug-in for Eclipse, you erase the simulator’s file syst...